Ruen Municipality (
Bulgarian
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* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
* Bulgarian language, a Slavic language
* Bulgarian alphabet
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: Община Руен, ''Obshtina Ruen'') is a municipality in
Burgas Province
Burgas Province ( bg, Област Бургас, translit=Oblast Burgas, formerly the Burgas okrug) is a province in southeastern Bulgaria, including the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The province is named after its administrative and ind ...
,
Bulgaria
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. It includes the town of
Ruen
Ruen ( bg, Руен, ; tr, Ulanlı) is a village in southeastern Bulgaria, part of Burgas Province. It is the administrative centre of Ruen municipality, which lies in the northern part of Burgas Province.
Municipality
Ruen municipality include ...
and a number of villages.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the majority of the population declared to be part of the
Turkish minority of Bulgarian. The municipality of Ruen has one of the highest concentration of
Bulgarian Turks
Bulgarian Turks ( bg, български турци, bŭlgarski turtsi, tr, Bulgaristan Türkleri) are a Turkish ethnic group from Bulgaria. According to the 2021 census, there were 508,375 Bulgarians of Turkish descent, roughly 8.4% of t ...
in the country with 87% its population belonging to this ethnic group.
The percentage of ethnic
Bulgarians
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Etymology
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is less than 7%, which is one of the lowest in Bulgaria. The municipality has also one of the highest share of
Muslims: 87.5% declared to be part of the
Muslim minority in Bulgaria.
Religion
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:
References
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Municipalities in Burgas Province